President Barack Obama kicked off his final full day of campaigning as a candidate for office with a rally this morning in chilly downtown Madison. Mr.Obama told a crowd of about 18-thousand that they knew where he stood and that this election was about trust. Warming up the shivering crowd...

This year's elections have generated more than $500-million of added revenue for printing businesses nationwide. A chunk of that money is helping a struggling Wisconsin print industry. Between things like tickets for presidential visits, mailers and voter information flyers, Tom Schorr of Wells Print and Digital Services in Madison says...

U.S. Senate candidates Tammy Baldwin and Tommy Thompson have another full day of campaigning planned today as they compete for votes ahead of tomorrow's election. Representative Baldwin says she visited four African-American churches in Milwaukee yesterday, before the Democrat dropped by a Milwaukee get-out-the-vote office during the first half of...

Assistant attorneys general will be joining the army of election observers expected to show up at the polls across Wisconsin on Tuesday. Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen says prosecutors from his staff will be doing spot checks in several cities to prevent both voter fraud, and voter intimidation. This is...

The Assembly Majority Leader, Republican Scott Suder, is facing his toughest race in years with a well-known opponent and a new legislative map that brings more Democrats into his district. Scott Suder has represented central Wisconsin's 69th Assembly District since 1998. Two years ago, he didn't even have a Democratic...

WE Energies hopes to build a new natural gas pipeline between Tomah and the Eau Claire area partly because of new demand from the frac sand industry. The utility estimates by 2015 demand for natural gas will outpace their system's capacity in western Wisconsin. So, next year WE Energies will...

An Argyle woman is still hospitalized after being severely burned in a house fire her husband is accused of setting. More than half of Sharon Wand's body had the worst burns possible: 3rd degree. So far she's had four operations. Wand is now speaking and yesterday was able to see...

Vice President Joe Biden told a packed middle school gymnasium in Beloit Friday that Republicans Mitt Romney would say anything to get elected, arguing Romney lacked the "character" needed to be President. Biden hit the character argument hard in Beloit. "Presidential elections, unlike any other, come down to character, character,...

Superstorm Sandy hit Superior Thursday night, or at least the topic did. It was part of the 7th Congressional District debate at UW-Superior. About 100 people took in an hour of issues that largely reflected the national Republican and Democratic talking points. Former Democratic State Senator Pat Kreitlow says global...

Mitt Romney made his first campaign appearance in Wisconsin in more than two months today, as spoke at State Fair Park in West Allis. The Republican presidential candidate tried to attack President Obama's jobs record. The Romney campaign has let vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan make most of the GOP ticket's...

The road to the White House passes through Madison this morning, as President Obama makes his third campaign stop in five days in Wisconsin. He is scheduled to appear at a rally that will include rocker Bruce Springsteen a couple of blocks from the State Capitol. The president spoke in...

President Barack Obama told a campaign rally in Milwaukee today that the middle class and less fortunate need a "champion." In making a case for four more years in office, the president talked about his accomplishments during the past four years and laid out some things he'd like to do...

Energy and environmental issues trigger more disagreement between Wisconsin U.S. Senate candidates Tommy Thompson and Tammy Baldwin. The proposed Keystone pipeline would be hundreds of miles from Wisconsin, carrying tar sands oil from Canada to Texas. But former Gov. Thompson doesn't let too many public appearances go by without touting...

<p>Three candidates are on the ballot for the open 12th District State Senate seat, which covers a broad swath of north central Wisconsin.</p><p>The seat is open because of the retirement of incumbent Democrat Jim Holperin. Redistricting has made the 12th more Republican, which should benefit Tom Tiffany of Hazelhurst, a...

The way Wisconsin's public golf courses are managed is changing as cities and counties work to shrink their budgets and increase revenue. The latest proposed change is causing controversy. Bill Scheer is one of four PGA golf pros who run Madison's public golf courses. Currently the courses operate like small...

A second statewide poll this week shows President Barack Obama ahead of Governor Mitt Romney with less than a week to go before Election Day. According to the Wisconsin Public Radio/St. Norbert Survey , President Obama holds a nine-percentage point lead over his Republican challenger. Fifty-one percent of likely voters...

Former President Bill Clinton campaigned for President Barack Obama in Waukesha Thursday. Four-and-a-half years ago, the former president was saying some tough things about Barack Obama while helping his wife Hillary campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination against the then-Illinois Senator. Now the former president is going to bat for...

Business leaders in the road construction industry and county highway officials today got a sneak peak at the soon to be proposed state transportation budget. It will almost certainly include an increased gas tax and vehicle registration fee. At a meeting of the Transportation Development Association in Middleton, state Department...

Hurricane Sandy and the ensuing superstorm this week may be a result of global warming. Or maybe not. Professor Tom Johnson tracks the world's biggest lakes for changes. He's a Regents Geology Professor at the University of Minnesota-Duluth's Large Lakes Observatory. From Africa to the Arctic, he's seeing lake and...

The chairman of the Senate Mining Committee is scrapping the one year time limit touted by Republicans earlier this year. That is just one of several major changes in a proposed iron ore bill. The Assembly Republican bill was withdrawn last March when it was clear it didn't have enough...